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EU Unveils Sweeping Climate Change Plan

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 18 2021, @12:12PM   Printer-friendly

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EU unveils sweeping climate change plan:

The European Union has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

A dozen draft proposals, which still need to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states and the EU parliament, were announced on Wednesday.

They include plans to tax jet fuel and effectively ban the sale of petrol and diesel powered cars within 20 years.

The proposals, however, could face years of negotiations.

The plans triggered serious infighting at the European Commission, the bloc's administrative arm, as the final tweaks were being made, sources told the AFP news agency.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by quietus on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:27PM

    by quietus (6328) on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:27PM (#1157649) Journal
    Emissions of carbon dioxide in the developed world are now at levels last seen in the 80s. The writeup is shite: the proposals are mainly directed at heavy industries -- steel, cement, energy and transport; and that's where the protests are: with the German Minister for Industry going to the European Commission to tell them that the necessary investments will kill steel exports to non-EU countries, requesting that heavy industry will continue to receive free carbon credits until 2035. (They won't, but they might get their real target ie 2025, with a steady reduction in number of credits until 2035)
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